Mapping the Cold War : cartography and the framing of America's international power

Mapping the Cold War : cartography and the framing of America's international power / Timothy Barney.

Author/creator	Barney, Timothy author.
Format	Book and Print
Publication Info	Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2015]
Description	xiii, 322 pages ; 24 cm
Subject(s)	Geopolitics--History --20th century. Political geography--History --20th century. Cartography--Political asepcts --History --20th century. World politics--1945-1989. Cold War. United States--Foreign relations --1945-1989.

Contents	Introduction : the rhetorical lives of Cold War maps -- Iron albatross : air-age globalism and the bird's-eye view of American internationalism -- One world or two? : mapping a new foreign policy in the transition to Cold War -- Images of commitment and evidentiary weapons : maps and the visual construction of the Soviet Union -- Framing the Third World : American visions of "the South" and the cartography of development -- The end of cartography : state control and radical change in the nuclear geopolitics of the second Cold War -- Conclusion : from globalism to globalization: the afterlives of Cold War maps.
Bibliography note	Includes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN	2014039875
ISBN	9781469618548 paperback alkaline paper
ISBN	1469618540 paperback alkaline paper
ISBN	electronic book

Library	Location	Call Number	Status	Item Actions
Joyner	General Stacks	JC319 .B385 2015	✔ Available	Place Hold